Collaborative Service Management

Simplifying modern IT Service Management

Hornbill Service Manager: Innovative, intuitive and powerful at its core

Collaborative ITSM is a fresh approach that blends effective principles from traditional ITSM
best-practice with innovative
collaboration technologies to empower people and increase IT agility. If you’re struggling to
articulate IT value;
if valuable knowledge, great ideas, and expert opinions are limited by the walls of your silos,
perhaps it’s time to modernize
your ITSM function and unleash the power of your people with Collaborative ITSM. With immediate
deployment, simple
integration, and automatic upgrades… Hornbill will help you make IT happen. Product Brochure

Collaborative ITSM

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WHAT WE OFFER

Hornbill Service Manager is a cloud-based IT Service Management solution that offers a simpler and more intuitive way to adopt and deploy best practice. Its modern, intuitive user interface combined with efficient, automated and collaborative ITSM practices helps to reduce the volume of low-value interactions, freeing IT resources to focus on proactive activities and high-value business initiatives.

It helps IT organizations to modernize IT service Management and deliver better outcomes, by breaking down silos and enabling disparate teams to work together to achieve common goals.

SIMPLIFYING MODERN ITSM

Our next-generation solution for collaborative ITSM offers a fresh approach that combines innovative collaborative technology, ITSM best practice, offering a more intuitive and simpler way to adopt and adapt best-practice.

EXTENSIVE ITSM PROCESS SUPPORT

Hornbill enables you to introduce ITSM and ITIL best practice naturally and cost-effectively using a collaborative approach that enables teams to prioritize business outcomes over processes.

EMPOWER THE USER; SELF SERVICE EXPERIENCE

Empowers users to find and consume services, seek help and access knowledge, anytime, anywhere. Be proactive with real-time broadcasts on service availability and performance. All delivered and accessed via an interface that’s beautiful, easy-to-use and branded to reflect your organisation’s needs.

DESIGNED FOR MODERN MOBILE TEAMS

You and your colleagues are not always at your desk! It’s essential that team members are notified and take action, wherever they are ensuring they are able to drive processes forward and view, update, reassign and authorize requests and activities while on the move.

ANALYTICS, ANALYTICS, ANALYTICS

The process of producing management information and reports doesn't have to be time-consuming and labour intensive. Hornbill makes it easier communicate and visualize service delivery performance, improvement and value over time.

POWERFUL PROCESS & TASK ORCHESTRATION

Powerful business process design capabilities, enable you to configure complex operational processes – yet the complexities are invisible to the people carrying out those processes.

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Hornbill Service Manager eases the difficulty in implementing ITSM best practice

Hornbill has drawn on decades of experience in ITSM, ITIL and other service management frameworks to provide modern collaborative technology that offers a more intuitive and simpler way to adopt and adapt best-practice.
Hornbill Service Manager combines powerful business process orchestration and automation capabilities, with a graphical business process designer to simplify configuration of ITSM processes. Users can complete tasks and process steps without having to understand the complexities of the process itself, and stakeholders have immediate access to status and progress information, wherever they are. Workflow drives automation and task orchestration enables people to interact, allowing processes to be streamlined, reviewed and continuously improved.

Harness ‘Tribal’ Knowledge to Deliver Better Service

Hornbill Service Manager enables you to capture valuable IT knowledge simply from conversations, ensuring that critical information is retained, shared and augmented over time. Knowledge is captured, refined and ultimately sanctioned through the process of collaboration, with entire teams providing expertise and consensus
Capturing 'on-the-job' experience and making it available, gives service delivery teams a trusted, complete, and accurate source of information for rapid decision making. And of course, valuable knowledge isn’t lost when team members leave, as their battle-tested know-how can be passed on to others.

Eliminate the barriers to effective teamwork

The use of collaborative workspaces enables team members to easily find and connect subject matter experts around the globe and ‘tap in’ to federated knowledge and expertise regardless of location.
Hornbill enables individuals and disparate teams to communicate and collaborate in any language, through real-time translation capabilities that facilitate conversations in the language of choice for the user.
Designed for mobile teams - You and your colleagues are not always at your desk so it is essential that team members are notified and take action, wherever they are ensuring they are able to drive processes forward and view, update, reassign and authorize requests and activities from a mobile device while on the move.

Optimizing the value of your ITSM operations

Switching focus from ‘keeping the lights on’ to innovation and proactive service delivery is difficult transition for any IT group to make. IT groups that cling to a traditional operational approach, with metrics centred on management of failures, face stiff competition from a growing number of third party service providers.
As businesses demand an ever increasing number of services, faster delivery and tighter cost control, IT groups must look for more innovative ways to eliminate low-value IT interactions and create capacity for initiatives that deliver real business value.
With Hornbill Service Manager, IT groups can provide faster resolution, prioritize work that’s most important to the business, and communicate how improvements to IT services relate to delivering better outcomes.

Free Implementation – Reduced Cost and Complexity

Purchasing, deploying, and using an ITSM solution has never been so quick, simple and cost effective. Every customer receives a free “switch on” service that provides the configuration needed to get you integrated with Single Sign-On (Single Sign On), to bring in your users, customers and IT assets; ready to raise requests to support your entire estate. Hornbill’s free service will have you and running the same day with no fuss, complex installs, or expensive consultancy services.
The simplicity of deploying new modules means that you only add functionality when you need it. Modular design and role based security enables you to deploy different modules to different users, so you only pay only for what you need. And with the Hornbill App Store, it’s all available with a click.

Eliminate lengthy, complex and costly maintenance and upgrade cycles

Like the idea of not having to upgrade and maintain your Hornbill solution?
With Hornbill delivering continuous software updates that automatically upgrade your applications, with no loss of service, and your customizations will always be maintained. You’ll always be on the latest version, and our experts will further enhance your productivity by tuning the service, resolving issues, and maintaining our infrastructure to deliver the highest level of performance and security of your data.
Complex upgrades and being stuck on old software versions are now a thing of the past.

Collaborative ITSM For The Public Sector

Collaborative ITSM is now available in G-Cloud 8.

Hornbill Service Manager is available in the latest iteration of the UK government’s cloud procurement framework, G-Cloud 8, through the Digital Marketplace.

Hornbill Service Manager offers a shorter time to value, with a simpler and more intuitive way to adopt and deploy best practice through Collaborative ITSM.

Get Up and running in minutes. Free Implementation Services.

We offer a free implementation service called Switch-On which gets you integrated with Single-Sign-on, brings in your users and customer information as well as getting Hornbill applications and business processes configured, getting you up and running the same day with no fuss, no complicated or expensive installs and no need to find budget for consultancy services.